"Ninja" sparring anyone?

Here's a tip boys, that's not ninjitsu you're doing, that's Tai Kwon Do you dicks. I guess it's hard to push bullshido in Korea by any other means. If this is their "Best of Sparring", I'd like to see what didn't make the cut.

What the hell was with the ref jumping in and stopping it whenever they punched each other?

Also, as someone who once did TKD I'm vaguely insulted that what you saw there was compared to TKD. We at least had head shots allowed, although on second thoughts maybe it was allowed in that clip and it was just none of them could lift there legs that high.

Damn it, wake up after drinking all night with a beautiful woman and this is the first thing I gotta deal with?

Like Babo78 said, that wasn't in Korea. I guess all Asians look alike to you guys. The majority of those guys looked to be Chinese. The names listed in the vid were Chinese. The writing on the wall was Chinese.

Secondly, the use of chest gear does not automatically mean it's TKD. Shorinji Kempo uses them. A lot of schools use them. In fact hogu/bogu were first used in the Okinawan karate arts for sparring, as modifications of kendo chestgear. It filtered into Taekwondo through the Japanese karate connection.